Automated Transport City

Graduation project outline:
Current infrastructural networks are under high pressure from congestion and technological advances are taking us towards a future with automated vehicles. How can we optimize transport networks in combination with automated vehicles and how will this affect the urban fabric, streets and the way we perceive transportation?

Project goals are to research the effects of automated transport on existing cities with different morphological typologies and to create a vision for the ultimate automated transport city. This will be done through the use of simulations, animations, studies of urban fabrics and technological views on the future of our transportation.

vehicles platooning on a magnetic highway system

High-Tech Multifunctional space

In today's society we see that our need for space is growing though our supply is not.

By using (advanced) technological developments I want to find new and innovative ways to solve this problem.

With the first concept I seek to find new ways to intensify the use of our current spaces.

On an interior level the use of space is very singular and inefficient.

As an example, we only use our livingroom 6h a day (25%), bedroom 10h (42%), study 4h (17%), kitchen 3h (12%) and bathrooms 1h a day (1%). Alle spaces are empty for the biggest part of the day. With the help of high-tech elements, materials and solutions I want to intensify this use of space to make it more efficient.

Additionally I am exploring ways to make the use of interior spaces more efficient. 

Therefore I am questioning the use and function of ordinary walls.

When creating so called "flexible" spaces we are contradicting ourselves by using fixed ellements to do so. These so called flexible spaces are just static elements that can be moved around, either manually or mechanically. Often these solutions are crude and unneccesary and most often undesirable. These flexible spaces still require lots of planning up front and can not adjust quickly. What I want to achieve is spaces that can adjust instantly and infinatly. Depending on the desired use and function. Additionally I will be investigating the environmental impact of these alterations.

Foodweb Factories

I'm working on intra-city optimized foodproduction . In a couple of decenia 80% of the worldpopulation will live concentrated on 2% of the Earthsurface. With current techniques we would need new agricultural land approximatily the size of Brazil. We need to produce food near the consumer in an efficient industrial way to provide hyperyields in a compact space to feed those billions of hungry new citizens.